2 About Solution Designer

Solution Designer is a design tool for business users and domain experts from communications service providers. It unifies and accelerates service creation and delivery across Oracle Communications while minimizing the cost of ownership for operators and system integrators. By centralizing the management of product, service, resource, and network specifications and configurations, Solution Designer simplifies the maintenance and administration of products, services, and networks.

Introducing Solution Designer

Solution Designer enables you to model products, services, resources, and their interfaces, which together make up a communications service and network solution. It provides a consistent, user- and persona-based design experience, supporting rapid solution creation and deployment. Its consumer-grade user interface is accessible across devices yet robust enough for sophisticated enterprise scenarios.

Solution Designer is a cloud-native application deployed using containerized and orchestrated architecture. This unified design platform is tailored for business users and domain experts in communications service providers, streamlining both the creation and delivery of services and reducing operational costs.

You can also use Solution Designer to maintain and modify your solutions over time, as customer feedback, technology, and market needs change. The tool enables solution configuration at all stages of maturity, supporting ongoing evolution throughout the solution lifecycle.

Example Solution Design User Journey:

  1. The Service Catalog Administrator creates the initiative and domains.

  2. The Product Specialist creates product specifications, along with their commercial parameters and mappings.

  3. The Inventory Specialist creates data elements, service specifications, and resource specifications.

  4. The Service catalog administrator imports the capabilities cartridge, and the Fulfillment Specialist enriches it using the fulfillment model.

  5. The Network Specialist creates the technology model.

  6. The Service Specialist creates the service model.

  7. The Service Catalog Administrator publishes the initiative. Once design is complete, the administrator moves the initiative through various transitions, ultimately releasing it to production. At the testing stage, Solution Designer interacts with the DevOps engine to build the necessary cartridges for deployment. For UIM, the DevOps engine also generates Design Studio workspaces, which developers use to enhance the cartridge and build solution cartridges.

  8. After the entire solution is tested and approved, the Service Catalog Administrator releases the initiative to production for deployment.

For more information on Solution Designer and how to work with the user interfaces, see Solution Designer User's Guide.

About Solution Designer Applications

Solution Designer is a micro-services based cloud native application. You can manage the following applications in Solution Designer:

  • Common Elements: Define the attributes and properties of products, services, and resources. You can also define converters and sequence identifiers.

  • Domains: Logical grouping or category that represents a specific area or type of service within the telecommunications industry.

  • Fulfillment: Import capability cartridges and view fulfillment patterns, functions, and systems.

  • Infrastructure Specifications: Define your infrastructure including locations, involvement, role, and inventory group that enables you to manage the resources.

  • Product Specifications: Define your products.

  • PSR Models: Describe how products, customer services, and technology specific Resource Facing Services (RFSs) are designed and implemented.

  • Publishing Center: Manage initiatives, workspaces, and add lifecycle stages.

  • Resource Specifications: Define your resources such as Logical Device, Telephone number and so on.

  • Service Specifications: Define your services including Customer Facing Services (CFSs) and RFSs.